You'll feel differently when D's next is out - taking it, of course, that someone will play it.

I hadn't heard Kate Nash until I saw her and heard an announcer say her name when I was flicking channels TV last night. My immediate thought was Lily Allen..

A very ordinary girl who's had great publicity and media attention. Ordinary is fine - I hope she manages to keep ordinary.

.....or at least manages to make her way without insulting other artists and pretending to start feuds just for column inches.

I hope that's just her pr.

It's what Cheryl Cole and Lily Allen allegedly do a lot of the time.

 

BTW Nadine Coyle wants to move to LA and open a chain of Irish pubs in America.

I thought she'd decided against that now?

Who?

Nadine Coyle

 

Come on Baytree - keep up!!!! Girls aloud.

 

Quote from Interview with NME in reply to megs quote of a very ordinary girl.

 

Kate Nash has pledged to make pop music “cool” again.

 

The ‘Foundations’ singer insisted that the current crop of British singer-songwriters – Lily Allen, Jamie T, Jack Penate – have helped to restore pop music’s reputation after the domination of manufactured groups in the early noughties.

 

She told the NME: “It’s good to make pop music cool again, isn’t it? I think we’re pop music, but from the heart. It’s written genuinely, by real people. It’s so bizarre now if you think back to what was massive – Westlife and S Club 7 and all that absolute bulls**t.

 

“The songs weren’t written by them – it was so fake and I think it’s one of those things. With us you can see that it could actually be you as well – just a normal person. It’s beans on toast."

 

 

 

Well, she has a point. You have to remember that millions of people like Westlife and S Club. Whether we do or not, that makes them a viable source of entertainment. I do like individuality though, so songs written for a performer, either by themselves or others, with that performers strengths and preferences in mind, I do prefer.

 

We can't all like the same and I see no reason to label someone else's preferences as inferior. It's just different and it's arrogant to suggest that we know best. We know best what we like. I have heard many tracks that I dislike but can see that they are relly very good within the genre they are in.

I find it hard to keep up. Different sources seem to have different tales.

It's all pr. Believe as much of it as you feel like believing. It's the people who think it's true because it's in the paper who worry me.

Do you think they're the same people who're rude to soap actors because their characters are nasty ? I used to find it hard to believe that people couldn't make that differentiation.

I bet they are. It's like people hating Bonnie Lanford because they hated Violet Elizabeth. It shows she was a brilliant actress as a child but people have never forgiven her for it. She couldn't be more different. She seems a really lovely person. How many of the ladies would come out with their hair scapped back and no makeup? I did like her.

She must have been tired after every performance....... that last double dance routine alone must have taken so much energy.......yet she was always so kind.

And came over as a genuinly nice person. I must say that a large proportion of the cast came over that way too. Especially when faced with an enthusiastic 12 yr old. But, Bonnie was charming.

I didn't recognise some of them without their wigs. Even the guys looked so different in their casual clothes.

 

I could recognise the lads but it was really difficult with the girls some times. It wasn't that they weren'yt good - just hard to recognise.

I didn't recognise Stephen Webb - Benny Southstreet. He looked much older on the stage.

 

He was good and I know he has a lot of fans but when I went to Liverpool, the first guy I saw playing the part was his understudy, Andrew Bowness, who normally plays Brandy Bottle Bates. He was excellent and I was disappointed when I saw Stephen in Edinburgh. His interpretation of Benny included some visual humour that didn't appeal to me like the tripping and falling stuff and some of his actions to the songs.